The Belgian Society for Occupational Hygiene is the Belgian scientific association for occupational hygiene. The first meeting took place on 8 June 1989. Since 4 June 1991 it operates as a non-profit association.
BSOH is dedicated to the discipline and the application of occupational hygiene.
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The definition used by the International Occupational Hygiene Association is: "Occupational Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large."
Why should you join BSOH? Keeping up, gaining new insights and exchange of experiences are essential to perform occupational hygiene asks in a professional way.
Alex Wilson , a BOHS Council member and senior hygienist with Huntsman in the UK. is raising awareness about occupational hygiene with a new video that he created for the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists’ (AIOH) “Communicating Awareness – a New Approach Representing us on YouTube” (CANARY) Project, which is sponsored by Scott Safety.
Via Odisee wordt er een praktijkgerichte bijscholing georganiseerd. Klik hier voor meer info.
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à notre colloque annuel qui se tiendra le 21 novembre 2019 au LouvExpo de La Louvière.
Cette édition regroupera un grand nombre d’orateurs prestigieux dont le Professeur Alain Marchand
de l’Université et de l’Observatoire de la santé de Montréal.
Les résultats de recherche du Professeur Marchand nous serviront de fil conducteur tout au long de
la journée et permettront de parfaitement introduire les autres intervenants de qualité.
Inscription via le site: www.arcop.be
Cette année la SOFHYT organise la journée technique en partenariat avec Dräger.
La journée aura pour thème la détection et protection. Dräger vous invite dans ses locaux le 28 novembre à partir de 9h30. Inscriptions via ce lien.
The registrations are closed.
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Silicosis cases in artificial stoneworkers have been reported in Spain, Israel, Italy, United States, Italy and Belgium [Leso, 2019]. In Queensland, Australia, health monitoring of workers of from just two businesses involved in artificial stone kitchen benchtop fabrication, totaling 35 people, initially identified 12 cases, half of whom had Progressive Massive Fibrosis, a severe form of silicosis. Most were asymptomatic. The Queensland government has now put in place a screening program; Kirby [2019] and Edwards [2019] reported that over 799 workers had been screened, and 98 were confirmed with silicosis. Dr. Edwards has advised the number of confirmed cases is now over 150.
Dr. Edwards is actively involved in the detection of cases, and in alerting and advocating with government agencies across Australia and New Zealand to ensure a rapid collective response to the emerging epidemic.
What is happening in Queensland shows that we are dealing with a major public health problem, which is also likely to be present in Belgium.
